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From: Brian Pears
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:00

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In article: <815051192snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>  Philip McNab 
<philip@siberia.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Those aliases now work fine, but the other messages have *not*
> appeared anywhere, and no mailboxes have been created for the aliases
> as would normally happen when mail arrives for a dud username.

I too have had a similar experience. After reading Bob's response to
the original query I amended my incoming alias file and my ftpusers file
in the way he recommended. However I had not seen the follow-up which
stated that alias names must be all lower case and I used an initial
capital letter. I sent eight messages to various imaginary user names
at my address and they have vanished into thin air. No text files have
been created and the maillog file does not show them. I have since
corrected the alias names to lower case and everything works fine, but
those eight messages are still "out there" somewhere.
-- 
Brian Pears. Gateshead, UK.  brian@swinhope.demon.co.uk

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From: Brian Pears <brian@swinhope.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KA9Q incoming Alias
Date: 1995/10/31
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